What's the difference between binge and soak?

Binge


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We were interested in identifying variables that are important to consider when assessing and treating obese binge eaters.
  • (2) She promised to start campaigning at once and said issues she would be concentrating on included community hospitals, binge drinking and the environment.
  • (3) Alcohol and cigarettes More detail is expected on minimum pricing for alcohol to tackle binge drinking, or perhaps the announcement of a review of alcohol prices and duties.
  • (4) Reduced caloric intake, a hallmark of both disorders, is manifested by self-induced starvation in anorexia and by binge eating and gastrointestinal purging in bulimia.
  • (5) He Bing is a professor at Chinese University of Political Science and Law, and has over 430,000 followers on Sina Weibo.
  • (6) Evidence of social pressures to binge eat were found as well.
  • (7) This study tested the initial effects of cognitive-behavioral therapy for binge eating in Ss who do not purge.
  • (8) We hypothesized that bingeing and vomiting behavior could be contributory because food consumption in healthy volunteers increases plasma cortisol and prolactin secretion and suppresses growth hormone secretion.
  • (9) 6) It is suggested that abnormal behavioral patterns including binge eating, and psychopathological characteristics of "Süchtigkeit" for food in bulimic patients, are similar in nature to those of alcoholics.
  • (10) Yet we make time for other things: binge-drinking, arguing on Twitter, the X-Factor.
  • (11) The superego constellations in guilty, binge, sociopathic, and deteriorated alcoholics are delineated to explain the interaction of a treatment program with these patients.
  • (12) Dr Peter Carter, chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, said: "Alcohol abuse costs the NHS £3bn every year and nursing staff witness first hand the social costs of binge drinking every day.
  • (13) (1979) in The Chemistry and Physiology of Human Plasma Proteins (Bing, D. H., Ed.)
  • (14) This study examined attrition and weight loss in 235 female obese binge eaters, episodic overeaters, and nonbingers treated by a 26-week program of behavior modification and very low calorie diet.
  • (15) By contrast, when this same average weekly dose is concentrated in a binge cycle, unfavorable alterations in lipoprotein composition (increases LDL cholesterol, increases apolipoprotein B) and metabolism (decreases LCAT activity) occur along with weight loss and depletion of body fat.
  • (16) Female bulimic patients (n = 29) retrospectively rated the intensity of several emotions during their binge-purge cycle.
  • (17) Binging strength decreased in the following order: G-SRC greater than C-SRC greater than IgG-SRC greater than ConA-SRC Cell suspensions were incubated at 37 degrees, and phagocytosis was measured.
  • (18) "This is a big moment – we are taking out our slingshots and taking on Goliath," said the managing director and vice-president of consumer and online at Microsoft UK, Ashley Highfield, adding that he believed Bing met a real desire from both consumers and advertisers.
  • (19) The Netflix binge-watching model, I inform Abrams, has ruined the weekly viewing experience for me.
  • (20) Forty-four female binge eaters were randomized to either cognitive-behavioral treatment (CB) or a waiting-list (WL) control.

Soak


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt meat, salt fish, or the like.
  • (v. t.) To drench; to wet thoroughly.
  • (v. t.) To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.
  • (v. t.) To make (its way) by entering pores or interstices; -- often with through.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To absorb; to drain.
  • (v. i.) To lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak.
  • (v. i.) To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter.
  • (v. i.) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
  • (2) Others, like eight-year-old Stan – who was playing football with his mates in a corner of the beer-soaked field, has only good memories of Wales.
  • (3) They shun cost-benefit analysis but soak up aid money, saying Haiti's state is incompetent and corrupt.
  • (4) Duodenal DM flow was estimated with the indigestible markers, Cr-mordanted cell wall, Yb-soaked whole crop oat silage, and Co-EDTA.
  • (5) Boxing Day sales shoppers were soaked as downpours continued across the country on Wednesday, and there were warnings that an Atlantic storm would bring more heavy rain at the weekend.
  • (6) But Nick Loening, owner of Ecoyoga in the Scottish Highlands, is evangelical about the benefits of a good soak and gently insistent that his guests make the most of the various bathing options at his retreat – regardless of the weather.
  • (7) Sceptics think Prokhorov will be one of half a dozen "approved" candidates used to soak up discontent with his soothing talk of inexorable change, while posing no real threat to Putin's supremacy.
  • (8) In this model, an endotoxin-soaked thread is implanted in the adventitia along the ventral side of the rat femoral artery.
  • (9) Aflatoxin content in grains increased considerably with the increase in duration of soaking.
  • (10) He's got a very, very good memory and he soaks it all up."
  • (11) Sponges soaked in distilled water were implanted as controls.
  • (12) They had soaked up his blood into the soles of their boots and stamped it around in footprints that anyone who cared to might examine.
  • (13) A sample is extracted with tetrahydrofuran containing an internal standard, by sonication or overnight soaking.
  • (14) A video, seen by Guardian Australia but which we have chosen not to publish, shows Omid standing in a clearing, soaked in a liquid believed to be accelerant.
  • (15) For the detection of anthrax bacillus, sterile swabs should be soaked in the fluid of the vesicles.
  • (16) Over the same period, employment in the private sector increased by 104,000, more than soaking up public sector job losses.
  • (17) The other structures were equilibrium experiments carried out by soaking crystals in substrate containing solution.
  • (18) There was no significant change in phytic acid content of beans after soaking at 25 degrees C for 22 hours.
  • (19) Central corneal thickness (CCT) measurements after instillation of H2O2 into the cul-de-sac and after wearing H2O2 soaked soft contact lenses (SLC) for 2 h using 60 ppm, 100 ppm and 300 ppm H2O2.
  • (20) Scoop half of the chillies into a blender jar, pour in half of the soaking liquid (or water) and blend to a smooth purée.